Bale-tie.



No. 800,042. PATENTED SEPT. 19, 1905. D. WITT & J. R. HOLLINGER.

BALE TIE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.24. 1905.

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AND JOHN-IR. HOLLINGER, or CARLYLE,

ILLINOIS.

BALE-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19, 1905.

Application filed February 24:, 1905. Serial No. 247,188.

To all 1071 0112, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, DANIEL WITT, a resident of Trenton, and JOHN R. HOLLINGER, a resident of Carlyle, in the county of Clinton and State of Illinois, citizens of the United States, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Bale-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improvement in baleties intended for use in securing bales pressed in baling-presses and for other use; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a sectional view, partly broken away, of a bale secured by the tie. Fig. 2 is adetail perspective view showing the ends of the tie detached. Fig. 3 is a top plan view showing the tie fastened or connected. Fig. A is a side view showing the tie disconnected, and Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view illustrating the tongue and the double loop for connection therewith detached.

As shown, the tie comprises a length of wire A, twisted at one end to form the end loop or eye B. At its other end the wire A is returned upon itself or doubled back at (land has the extremity of the doubled portion upturned to form the hook or projection C. To this returned end of the main wire A is connected the keeper-section D, which is formed of a length of wire doubled upon itself at D, provided shortly in rear of its end D with an eye D and twisted at 1) into connection with the main wire. We thus provide at one end of the main wire a hook-like projection and a keepen-section which are twisted into connection with each other, so that the keeper-section overlies the hook and the loop of the keeper-section may receive the hook in the fastened position of the parts, the end extension of the keeper-section beyond the loop passing through the eye on the other end of the tie and bearing below such eye while the eye is engaged with the hook 0, whose free end is within the loop of the keeper. The end extension d of the keeper-section is made in the form of an eye for convenience in manipulating the device and when disposed as with an eye at d, which projects in the fastened adjustment of the tie through the end eye B. The hook C extends through the eye B and thence through the eye D of the keeper, the end extension d of the keeper-section beyond the eye D passing down throughthe end eye B and bearing beneath said eye and operating to hold the parts in fastened adjustment when applied as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. This forms in practice a secure tie and one which can be readily adjusted as to length by increasing or decreasing the number of twists D and also a tie which can be readily released when desired. In adjustment of the parts to tied position the extension (Z may be passed down through the end eye B and the hook C be forced up through said eye B and then through the eye D of the keeper-section, when the tension on the tie will hold the parts in connection as desired.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A bale-tie having an eye at one end and having its other end bent back upon itself and provided with an upturned hook adapted to engage with the eye at the opposite end of the tie and a separate and independent keeper having the loop at one end to fit over the hook, and an extension beyond said loop to enter the loop at the opposite end of the tie and lock said loop and hook in engagement, the said keeper-section being twisted at its other end into connection with the tie adjacent to the hooked end thereof, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A bale-tie having .an eye at one end and having at its other end an upwardly-projecting hook, and a keeper consisting of a length of wire independent of the main wire of the tie and twisted at one end into connection with said main wire of the tie at a distance from the upwardly-projecting hook and extending thence over the upwardly-projecting hook and having overlying the point of said hook an eye into which said point may project in the tied position of the parts, and also provided withran extension beyond said eye to pass down through the loop at the end of the tie opposite the hook whereby in operation the hook may be adjusted to project upwardly through the opposite end loop and the keeper-section may be adjusted with its eye over the said loop and fitting over the point eye or loop an extension to project into the eye at the opposite end of the tie in the tied position of the parts, the hook when in tied 5 position being arranged to project upwardly through the opposite end loop and through the eye in the keeper-section, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

DANIEL VITT.

JOHN R. HOLLINGER.

\Vitnesses:

HERRMANN PETERS,

JEFFERSON G. POWERS. 

